Scot Borofsky
1986
Faint, garbled, yet pervasively discernible in Scot Borofsky's painting and sculpture is a mystical impulse striving to find a contemporary voice.
Artforum — Suzaan Boettger , 1986
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An Art Scene Bristling With Energy
1986
In the East Village there is an exhibition of new paintings by Scot Borofsky at the Mokotoff Gallery.
The New York Times — John Russell , 1986
Scot Borofsky: The Language of Street Art
2021
Borofsky was among the first dozen or so artists to make the streets their primary venue and his savage large scale paintings on the streets became iconic images for the East Village during the 1980s.
dArt International Magazine — Christopher Hart Chambers , 2021
Gritty Streets to Green Mountains: Paintings by Scot Borofsky
2020
This exhibition illustrates the development of Borofsky's work over the last 40 years, ranging from early spray paintings created in the streets of New York City to his more recent paintings created in his Brattleboro studio.
Bennington Museum , 2020
Scot Borofsky at Jules Goldman Books
2011
I'm told that Borofsky sprang from the same graffiti/art culture that produced Basquiat and Keith Haring.
Broad Street Review — Andrew Mangravite , 2011
Alphabet Slop: Re-Straining the East Village Art Scene, 1981-1986
2006
Scot Borofsky saw the decaying walls of the EV as the perfect canvas for his hallucinatory hieroglyphs culled from vanished civilizations.
A Gathering of the Tribes — Michael Carter , 2006
The Wave (1986)
1986
Metropolitan Museum of Art — Collection , 1986
Scot Borofsky Papers (MSS.346)
Borofsky first achieved notoriety in the New York art world for his 25 spray paintings made in the East Village during the early 80s, and from the subsequent spray paintings that were shown at the Mokotoff Gallery during the remainder of that decade.
NYU Fales Library & Special Collections
Writing's on the wall
2009
Borofsky returned home to his native Brattleboro in 2001 and helped bring the exhibit 'From Street to Studio,' highlighting street art, to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in 2007.
Brattleboro Reformer — Jon Potter , 2009